If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
VERNON HOWARDWho asks a king for a penny?
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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